In the remote reaches of Siberia, a colossal scar on the ... depression – a fancy term for a giant permafrost-thaw sinkhole – is growing at an astonishing rate of 35 million cubic feet each ...

Tech expert Kurt “CyberGuy" Knutsson says the Batagaika crater in Siberia expands 35 million cubic feet yearly due to thawing ...

One of the craters is located in Siberia's Yamal Peninsula in the Taz district and has a diameter of 49ft (15 metres) 'The crater has more of an oval than a circular shape, it makes it harder to ...

These "eerie sinkholes" are the result of melting permafrost ... the permafrost thaws and the Earth "loosens and slumps". The Siberian collapse revealed layers of permafrost, within the ...

A farmer is reported to have died in Siberia as one of two sinkholes that opened and widened around the same time swallowed a ...

Siberia, Russia: Camera inside the first giant crater in Yamal - which literally means 'end of land' - shows walls like a moonscape and a silent, icy lake at the bottom. This is what it is like ...